Who Was that Masked Woman: Representations of Women Vigilantes and Outlaws in Popular Media from Reconstruction to the Great Depression

 Deadline for submissions:May 1  We invite chapters for a collection of critical essays that examine how women vigilantes, anti-heroines and outlaws of this era were represented in movie serials, radio dramas, films, comics, books, performance, and pulp fiction.  The book is currently with an interested publisher, who will peer-review the final manuscript for publication.  As this is a multidisciplinary collection, we encourage submissions from scholars in any of the numerous fields that examine the representation of women in American popular culture from 1865-1940. The call is open to a broad spectrum of methodological and critical approaches, and we invite submissions from seasoned as well as emerging scholars.   We encourage first draft submissions, or submissions that are beyond the proposal stage. We encourage proposals that consider how representations of women intersect with matters of class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, and the gendered mores of mass culture.  The focus should be on media from this era: 1865-1940. We especially welcome submissions that examine lesser-known figures. Chapters may also examine historical figures (i.e. Calamity Jane) but the analysis should focus on their representation in popular media, rather than their biography. Please send chapter drafts to: brayg@newpaltz.edu About the editors:  Gregory Bray, PhD, is an Associate Professor in Digital Media and Journalism at the State University of New York at New Paltz.  He serves on the editorial board for the Journal of Popular Culture and has previously served on the Board of Directors at the Broadcast Education Association.  His work has been published through The Journal of Popular Culture, McFarland Press, and Atropos Press.   

Andrew J. Ball, PhD, specializes in 19th and 20th century American culture. His scholarship has appeared in American Literary Realism, Studies in American Fiction, and Philosophy and Literature, among other publications. His book, The Economy of Religion in American Literature: Culture and the Politics of Redemption, is forthcoming from Bloomsbury in 2022. He is the Editor of Screen Bodies: The Journal of Embodiment, Media Arts, and Technology. He is Affiliated Faculty at Emerson College.